Who is more inteligent than the inteligent designer? I think that all nuclear waste should be given to the inteligent designer supporters. After all if he made such wonderfull things, that nature it self can not make over more then a billion years of evolution (and gossip has that he made it all in one week, and he even took the sunday off). Well if he is so powerfull and made us, he may have some plan to our wastes. The only people that are complaing are those damn scientist, what do they know?
In efect, why not making an insurance to people who do illegal trading in the stock market? It is high risk business, and can be very lucrative. Or maybe another illegal trade, the drug market suffer from losses from aprehensions by the police, maybe there should be a insurance to help those people also.
I for one want a insurance aggainst the RIAA, MPIAA. They are known to make scapegoates and fine them for the loss of "millions of dollars". This insurance would be highly lucrative, since only a very small fraction of people do get to be fine and the market for it is huge (or at least RIAA and MPIAA have been saing so).
Do your credit cards tell you how to spend your money?
Actually they do, and luck me I don[ t listen to them. At least not all the time. Well Not evry single time. Hey what is that? A new colored lazer pen in think geek?
Redundancy is actually good, with more data you can confirm the observations made in another sets of redundant data.
Also the probability of finding something out of the ordinary get's higher with more data. If on 1 in a 10000 pictures would capture some rare kind of rock in mars, with the extended lifetime of the rovers it will be more probable to find that rock, among the data.
Don't get me wrong, I also hate flash and pop-ups in general. But I am also understanding, for instance, flash sites that uses flash in a way that don't corrupt my browser's back button and are do require flash (see www.homestarrunner.com) are ok for me.
I also tell people who design sites, when I'm in the job to code, to think that the fonts can get somewhat larger or smaller. It is not impossible to design a site that will withstand some size changes without breaking horribly (and even if it does break, it is not hide text beneath images or stuff like that).
The truth is that the site will always break if you change it too much. Designers do want to make the site beautiful and that requires some "pixel-perfect" adjustments, and with CSS2 this is quite possible. CSS3 will probably be even better, but it will take a few years for people to begin using it efectly.
That is the problem with big corporations, no one wants to put their asses on the line. You have a solution, you ask for your boss to aprove, he don't want to put his ass on the line and ask the superior, and this goes on and on until someone simply says "no" or it gets to the CEO. Corporations buy from MS because they can, on the theory, blame them for problems.
I believe that this man had balls, and he solved the problem that his predessor could not solve (and probably got fired). He puted his ass on the line, if he had failed he would probably be fired. But he did not, he had confience that this would solve the problem and he did.
Im getting tired of this days that anyone is trying to point fingers to everyone else, for problems that are probably their. And this is happening all over, from the crusade against video games to the xxiaa with their crusade against their customers.
But you would probably not resize your window. The text being harded to read would probably make you somewhat less interested in reading, since it get's you more tired while reading it. This could make you walk away, or maybe not.
Readability is important, a site is there to be readed, and if people get away because of a feature, this is a problem (in my book). Even if it is a tiny percentage.
hahahaah, you got me there. hahahaha!:-D I guess that "the invible man" would be nearly impossible to see, a hard to see not-so-much-person would be the predator, pehaps.:-D:-D:-D
Off course I was mening a people with vision problems, not necessarily blind.
Tables don't overflow text from one column to the other. Table usualy have an unintuitive layout in the source that makes hard or even impossible for a screen reader to make out the order on witch the text must be read. Sure blind and hard to see people are a minority, but why not include them in your audience?
I don't like tables layout more then I dislike CSS hacks to emulate coluns, but this is my opinion. I do use tables, to display tabled data, not much else.
Very long lines of text are harder to read. The problem here is that CSS/HTML does not allow you to make text flow throw columns automaticly (I think this is being proposed in CSS3, but I am not shure). The main problem is that CSS, HTML and other web standards are talked by web developers and not web designers. Many of the hacks to make columned sites with CSS are frankly quite ugly and use stuff that was not designed for this end (floats for instance), much like the table in html were abused to do layout.
CSS2 is just now being accepted, and even now IE have a lowsy suport for it. It is going to be ages to be able to use CSS3, with it dreamy column flow text. The only solution is to make your long text readable is to limit it to a single fixed sized column. The best solution for me is to not use maximized windows, so you can use the rest of the screen to show another sites in diferent windows or even anothe programs.
I have both, I usually organize them into albuns with names that identify what I was doing or who I was with when the pictures were taken. At the same time I have a hierarchy, automaticly created, that has symlinks to the pictures, those links are ordered in folders with year, with subfolders with month (I use 01_Jan or 03_Mar for clarity and sort order) and another level with the day. This turns out to be a good "journal" of activities.
But if he had the password he had permission, acording to the rules encoded in the system itself. I don't think that the reporter, or the guy who tested the "../../" is at fault here. The company that installed the system made a grave mistake and this is their fault pointing fingers and using law to punished the reporter is the wrong thing to do.
The next step in this line of thougth is to punish the research that is studing some protocol to see if we are actualy secure by it. In many cases this is only possible on a live system, since the protocols are closed and kept secret. Remember that laws and legislation will not stop the bad guys, they will tinker and find the problems anyway.
But for many people Linux can only catch on if adobe and many others jump in. Shure for many, many people who use their computer for internet and word, linux is already good enouth. But there are many other kinds of users, designers (want PS, indesign and maybe other), gamers (want the latest windows only non-opengl games), and so it goes. Sure there are many opensource tools that are adequate, but many lack the professional bits (gimp can't handle CMYK or duo-tone images).
Linux is getting there, if there is a base on witch adobe and other can count on they will probably be more eager to port their big apps to linux. but I don't think that every single dist out there should adopt this standard, only the main ones, red hat (and fedora), ubuntu (and debian), Suse and maybe others. If those adopt this standard, and there is say a PS that requires it, others will adapt if it makes sense to the project (who wants a router distribution that can run PhotoShop?).
You nailed on the spot, I didn't realised it was a KDE player, since I don't use KDE I was not familiar with the name.:P Well I did assume it was about window stuff since the main article was about that, and I tried to score some funny points.;-)
My poor coomprehension skills, or should it be poor knowledge of all possible open source players, did won me a troll (deserved I would say), I realy don't care about 'karma' anyway, I prefer replies (witch I definitly got them:-D and they even made me learn a new opensource player too bad I don't use KDE).
(needed) manages your albums
Manage the RIAA's albuns and checks to see if you have raided any ships lately. (pretty) gets album cover to display so you can visualize
Gets the covers of RIAA's albums to display the ones it thinks you should buy next.
(good) manages your preferences/statistics (you can see what you are listening to)
And send them to the microsoft's marketing department, probably to be shared with RIAA.
(pretty) presents those informations in an aesthetic way
In the form of an ad.
(good) or just gets minimized to the systray
In the form of two or three more tiny icons.
(good) all operations are two to three clicks away.
That will be monitored, for your safety off course. Fear the big bad terrorist.
Well for most people car engines are compleatly blackboxes also. People don't think they should be shutted, but it is already happening. More and more pieces of your car are probably computer driven and cannot be easily replaced (well at least not by a similar). Our eletronic lives are in fact transforming from a place where a knowledgable person could fix your TV, to one that "all TVs are belong to them". And people will feel the diference sooner or later.
The fact that this issues are arising is a good signal that people are starting to realise that this is an important issue. And I believe that it is not too late, not even for the United States. The badness in DCMA and patriotic act can be reverted, if enouth people get's to talk and act against those.
This is a real concern, matching a forged dolar with the printer is quite ok in my opinion. But matching a person who is printing those anti-goverment posters is a little more concerning. Maybe people could use some public printer to print out their gruntles against the goverment.
Anyway, I think that the customer should at least be warned about it in the manual. And the data should be easily decoded, by anyone, not just the FBI and the printer manufactorer. I think it is quite usefull to be able to know when did you made that copy of your work.
Well as far as I know beautifull is a matter of taste. And taste usually follows what you are more used too see. I think windows is very ugly, as matter of fact I think some UIs widget sets from apple also ugly (I don't know the name but it is the one that everyone in the OS tries to copy, whitish with little colered balls for the window buttons). I like gnome, some of the things I see in KDE.
So please, before you trash Congress for against "the will of the people," bear in mind that is exactly why Congress exists; so that when the time is appropriate, Congress can go against the majority of the people in order to protect the minority.
In this case the will of the unprotected minority (RIAA, MPIAA, *IAA, Disney, Sony, Exon, name other deep-pocket industry here) is being bravely defended by those braves congressmen and congresswomen. Going against every single individual interest and battling those evil, terrorist backed, so called "fair uses". They must be heroes , risking their career to fight for such noble and unjust-iced minority.
I use a similar aproach, but I am somewhat more open. I block only the ones that anoy me, this includes naturally all flash ones (thanks flashblock), but I do hate those intellytxt or whatever, I block them also, if the advertising blocks my view on the site, it will be clocked. I guess that if it blinks wnougth to call my atention I will block it.
Those crazy marketing people think that if they manage to put an add everywhere you look that this will be good. The internet is taken, much by those alfuls blinking and intrusive. I also take my hat off to google with the less intrusive adds on the net.
The first three? Write portable code is not tied to linux, not by definition (if code is tied to unix/linux it does not run in windows thus it is not multiplataform). Multi plataform is quite important, simply because the reason you stated. Being able to run on linux is going to make the software available to most of the comunity that will probably want, or is able, to change it and adapt it, while if there is a windows version it will be available to 90% of the world for whom linux is just another buzzword.
I believe that law alone is not going to stop abusive aplications of this RFID technology. There will be police interest to investigate who passed throw some place where a crime had happend. There will be the marketing department in every major store, that will want to collect information on whitch places on the mega-store you're spending time on. There will be many people intersted in sliping an RFID without your knowlwdge, stalkers, private investigators, police, anti-terrorist people, terrorists, the list is likely to be endless.
So is there a cheappo way to detect this things reliably? How can one be shure that there isn't a NSA designed ship in that shoe you just bought? Ok, maybe a little too paranoid, but if the technology gets to be used every where, there will be time when a user that is worried will forget to disable one or a few of the RFIDs in his cristmas shopping, or maybe auntie tillie did not disable any of theirs, including your present. How can I know that some item of mine is not broadcasting his presence to anyone who happens to know how to activate the chip?
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Who is more inteligent than the inteligent designer? I think that all nuclear waste should be given to the inteligent designer supporters. After all if he made such wonderfull things, that nature it self can not make over more then a billion years of evolution (and gossip has that he made it all in one week, and he even took the sunday off). Well if he is so powerfull and made us, he may have some plan to our wastes. The only people that are complaing are those damn scientist, what do they know?
In efect, why not making an insurance to people who do illegal trading in the stock market? It is high risk business, and can be very lucrative. Or maybe another illegal trade, the drug market suffer from losses from aprehensions by the police, maybe there should be a insurance to help those people also.
I for one want a insurance aggainst the RIAA, MPIAA. They are known to make scapegoates and fine them for the loss of "millions of dollars". This insurance would be highly lucrative, since only a very small fraction of people do get to be fine and the market for it is huge (or at least RIAA and MPIAA have been saing so).
Damn, there goes my business plan....
Is there an echo in here?
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ECHOOOO... echoooo....
Redundancy is actually good, with more data you can confirm the observations made in another sets of redundant data.
Also the probability of finding something out of the ordinary get's higher with more data. If on 1 in a 10000 pictures would capture some rare kind of rock in mars, with the extended lifetime of the rovers it will be more probable to find that rock, among the data.
Don't get me wrong, I also hate flash and pop-ups in general. But I am also understanding, for instance, flash sites that uses flash in a way that don't corrupt my browser's back button and are do require flash (see www.homestarrunner.com) are ok for me.
I also tell people who design sites, when I'm in the job to code, to think that the fonts can get somewhat larger or smaller. It is not impossible to design a site that will withstand some size changes without breaking horribly (and even if it does break, it is not hide text beneath images or stuff like that).
The truth is that the site will always break if you change it too much. Designers do want to make the site beautiful and that requires some "pixel-perfect" adjustments, and with CSS2 this is quite possible. CSS3 will probably be even better, but it will take a few years for people to begin using it efectly.
That is the problem with big corporations, no one wants to put their asses on the line. You have a solution, you ask for your boss to aprove, he don't want to put his ass on the line and ask the superior, and this goes on and on until someone simply says "no" or it gets to the CEO. Corporations buy from MS because they can, on the theory, blame them for problems.
I believe that this man had balls, and he solved the problem that his predessor could not solve (and probably got fired). He puted his ass on the line, if he had failed he would probably be fired. But he did not, he had confience that this would solve the problem and he did.
Im getting tired of this days that anyone is trying to point fingers to everyone else, for problems that are probably their. And this is happening all over, from the crusade against video games to the xxiaa with their crusade against their customers.
But you would probably not resize your window. The text being harded to read would probably make you somewhat less interested in reading, since it get's you more tired while reading it. This could make you walk away, or maybe not.
Readability is important, a site is there to be readed, and if people get away because of a feature, this is a problem (in my book). Even if it is a tiny percentage.
hahahaah, you got me there. hahahaha! :-D I guess that "the invible man" would be nearly impossible to see, a hard to see not-so-much-person would be the predator, pehaps. :-D :-D :-D
Off course I was mening a people with vision problems, not necessarily blind.
Tables don't overflow text from one column to the other. Table usualy have an unintuitive layout in the source that makes hard or even impossible for a screen reader to make out the order on witch the text must be read. Sure blind and hard to see people are a minority, but why not include them in your audience?
I don't like tables layout more then I dislike CSS hacks to emulate coluns, but this is my opinion. I do use tables, to display tabled data, not much else.
Very long lines of text are harder to read. The problem here is that CSS/HTML does not allow you to make text flow throw columns automaticly (I think this is being proposed in CSS3, but I am not shure). The main problem is that CSS, HTML and other web standards are talked by web developers and not web designers. Many of the hacks to make columned sites with CSS are frankly quite ugly and use stuff that was not designed for this end (floats for instance), much like the table in html were abused to do layout.
CSS2 is just now being accepted, and even now IE have a lowsy suport for it. It is going to be ages to be able to use CSS3, with it dreamy column flow text. The only solution is to make your long text readable is to limit it to a single fixed sized column. The best solution for me is to not use maximized windows, so you can use the rest of the screen to show another sites in diferent windows or even anothe programs.
I have both, I usually organize them into albuns with names that identify what I was doing or who I was with when the pictures were taken. At the same time I have a hierarchy, automaticly created, that has symlinks to the pictures, those links are ordered in folders with year, with subfolders with month (I use 01_Jan or 03_Mar for clarity and sort order) and another level with the day. This turns out to be a good "journal" of activities.
But if he had the password he had permission, acording to the rules encoded in the system itself. I don't think that the reporter, or the guy who tested the "../../" is at fault here. The company that installed the system made a grave mistake and this is their fault pointing fingers and using law to punished the reporter is the wrong thing to do.
The next step in this line of thougth is to punish the research that is studing some protocol to see if we are actualy secure by it. In many cases this is only possible on a live system, since the protocols are closed and kept secret. Remember that laws and legislation will not stop the bad guys, they will tinker and find the problems anyway.
But for many people Linux can only catch on if adobe and many others jump in. Shure for many, many people who use their computer for internet and word, linux is already good enouth. But there are many other kinds of users, designers (want PS, indesign and maybe other), gamers (want the latest windows only non-opengl games), and so it goes. Sure there are many opensource tools that are adequate, but many lack the professional bits (gimp can't handle CMYK or duo-tone images).
Linux is getting there, if there is a base on witch adobe and other can count on they will probably be more eager to port their big apps to linux. but I don't think that every single dist out there should adopt this standard, only the main ones, red hat (and fedora), ubuntu (and debian), Suse and maybe others. If those adopt this standard, and there is say a PS that requires it, others will adapt if it makes sense to the project (who wants a router distribution that can run PhotoShop?).
You nailed on the spot, I didn't realised it was a KDE player, since I don't use KDE I was not familiar with the name. :P Well I did assume it was about window stuff since the main article was about that, and I tried to score some funny points. ;-)
:-D and they even made me learn a new opensource player too bad I don't use KDE).
My poor coomprehension skills, or should it be poor knowledge of all possible open source players, did won me a troll (deserved I would say), I realy don't care about 'karma' anyway, I prefer replies (witch I definitly got them
What will you actually get :
(needed) manages your albums
Manage the RIAA's albuns and checks to see if you have raided any ships lately.
(pretty) gets album cover to display so you can visualize
Gets the covers of RIAA's albums to display the ones it thinks you should buy next.
(good) manages your preferences/statistics (you can see what you are listening to)
And send them to the microsoft's marketing department, probably to be shared with RIAA.
(pretty) presents those informations in an aesthetic way
In the form of an ad.
(good) or just gets minimized to the systray
In the form of two or three more tiny icons.
(good) all operations are two to three clicks away.
That will be monitored, for your safety off course. Fear the big bad terrorist.
Well for most people car engines are compleatly blackboxes also. People don't think they should be shutted, but it is already happening. More and more pieces of your car are probably computer driven and cannot be easily replaced (well at least not by a similar). Our eletronic lives are in fact transforming from a place where a knowledgable person could fix your TV, to one that "all TVs are belong to them". And people will feel the diference sooner or later.
The fact that this issues are arising is a good signal that people are starting to realise that this is an important issue. And I believe that it is not too late, not even for the United States. The badness in DCMA and patriotic act can be reverted, if enouth people get's to talk and act against those.
This is a real concern, matching a forged dolar with the printer is quite ok in my opinion. But matching a person who is printing those anti-goverment posters is a little more concerning. Maybe people could use some public printer to print out their gruntles against the goverment.
Anyway, I think that the customer should at least be warned about it in the manual. And the data should be easily decoded, by anyone, not just the FBI and the printer manufactorer. I think it is quite usefull to be able to know when did you made that copy of your work.
Witch makes me wonder if this bridge is being built on a "need" based or on a more mundane "because we can" spirit. :-D
Well as far as I know beautifull is a matter of taste. And taste usually follows what you are more used too see. I think windows is very ugly, as matter of fact I think some UIs widget sets from apple also ugly (I don't know the name but it is the one that everyone in the OS tries to copy, whitish with little colered balls for the window buttons). I like gnome, some of the things I see in KDE.
In this case the will of the unprotected minority (RIAA, MPIAA, *IAA, Disney, Sony, Exon, name other deep-pocket industry here) is being bravely defended by those braves congressmen and congresswomen. Going against every single individual interest and battling those evil, terrorist backed, so called "fair uses". They must be heroes , risking their career to fight for such noble and unjust-iced minority.
I use a similar aproach, but I am somewhat more open. I block only the ones that anoy me, this includes naturally all flash ones (thanks flashblock), but I do hate those intellytxt or whatever, I block them also, if the advertising blocks my view on the site, it will be clocked. I guess that if it blinks wnougth to call my atention I will block it.
Those crazy marketing people think that if they manage to put an add everywhere you look that this will be good. The internet is taken, much by those alfuls blinking and intrusive. I also take my hat off to google with the less intrusive adds on the net.
The first three? Write portable code is not tied to linux, not by definition (if code is tied to unix/linux it does not run in windows thus it is not multiplataform). Multi plataform is quite important, simply because the reason you stated. Being able to run on linux is going to make the software available to most of the comunity that will probably want, or is able, to change it and adapt it, while if there is a windows version it will be available to 90% of the world for whom linux is just another buzzword.
I believe that law alone is not going to stop abusive aplications of this RFID technology. There will be police interest to investigate who passed throw some place where a crime had happend. There will be the marketing department in every major store, that will want to collect information on whitch places on the mega-store you're spending time on. There will be many people intersted in sliping an RFID without your knowlwdge, stalkers, private investigators, police, anti-terrorist people, terrorists, the list is likely to be endless.
So is there a cheappo way to detect this things reliably? How can one be shure that there isn't a NSA designed ship in that shoe you just bought? Ok, maybe a little too paranoid, but if the technology gets to be used every where, there will be time when a user that is worried will forget to disable one or a few of the RFIDs in his cristmas shopping, or maybe auntie tillie did not disable any of theirs, including your present. How can I know that some item of mine is not broadcasting his presence to anyone who happens to know how to activate the chip?